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snails, season II
Now I’m starting to truly get it. I read Lori Pickert’s Project-Based Homeschooling last year, and loved it. I gobbled up her theories about child-lead learning and immediately went about tweaking...
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bugs & bones
One of the things that popped out during my first read of Project-Based Homeschooling is Lori’s advice not to take field trips just for the sake of taking a field trip. We were definitely in the habit...
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trumpet of the swans
One of my favourite books as a child was E. B. White’s Trumpet of the Swan. When we landed in Whitehorse last week, the first thing I spotted was a large cut-out of a white swan at the side of the...
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the farm
The other day we went to Maplewood Farm for the morning, bringing along fresh veggies for the bunnies and seeds for the birds. It’s hard to say who gets more out of a trip to the farm. Esmé loves...
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my little entomologist
Did you know that you can order ladybugs online, and they’ll be delivered to your address for you to release into your garden? And why would you want to do that? Just ask Esmé. She can tell you. As...
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paperbag books
My Auntie Ruth … wow. She has the best ideas! The last time she was here, she brought out a couple of paper lunch bags that had been folded in half and stapled together with a long stapler. So what,...
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my airplane Go Bag
It’s taken me a long time to get myself sorted out when it comes to the perfect bag to take on the plane when traveling with kids. After many trials and errors, I’ve learned a few things. First of...
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larvae love
Esmé, entomologist extraordinaire, is very into ladybug larvae as of late. She’s been collecting them whenever she finds them, which is often, because she is constantly on the hunt. We first happened...
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helping hands
One of the elders in our co-op has not been well as of late. She ended up in the ICU at Saint Paul’s last week, having been taken in by ambulance. As often happens, she didn’t get a chance to gather...
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Lyceum love
Last Monday was the final day of Esmé’s weekly Art & Literature class at Christianne’s Lyceum. How we love that place! I’ve waxed poetic about the Lyceum before, both here and here. Run by the...
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Lynn Canyon
We picnicked, explored the forest, investigated banana slugs and tromped through muddy bogs and in and out of the scrubby bush along the trail. We went as far as the little ones could walk before...
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relentless learners
I’m flipping though Project-Based Homeschooling again, and I noticed something on the back that really stuck out for me this time. Raising Relentless Learners That’s really what our goal is. Jack and...
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Emerging mid week from family music camp! I thought I’d posted to let everyone know that we’d be out of touch while we drum and dance and saw at merciful violins and pluck at patient mandolins and...
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Jam Camp!
We’ve been granted entry to a delightful and enchanting community where folks wander around singing songs and playing music, all while being deliciously supportive and easy-going, and with offspring...
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stretching
I noticed something about Esmé at Jamp Camp. She’s stretching. Doing things she would never have done before, trying out different aspects of her awesome young self that she’s never let shine until...
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illuminated
For a long time, Esmé was concentrating on researching, collecting and making notes and art about snails. It was her ‘project‘ for the last 18 months or more, and it was pretty easy to define, focus...
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wheels
The other day I wrote about Esmé and how her project has shifted lately. And what about Hawk? In Project-based Homeschooling, Lori talks about the importance of supporting the very young in their...
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Not Back to School
Last year we went to the Not Back to School picnic and met oodles of lovely families with neat kids from all over Vancouver. Several parents of littler ones gravitated together, mostly nursing babies...
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mystery pod
Esmé brought home a smooth, green pod of some kind when she went to the park with Jack and Hawk. She brought it up to me in my office and asked what it was from, but I had no idea. “Okay, then.”...
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